What do América need to progress in the Leagues Cup? | OneFootball

For the second consecutive matchday, the eagles managed to salvage a last-minute draw in the Leagues Cup, this time against Minnesota United.

Club América once again showed a very concerning defensive fragility, as Minnesota United practically scored three goals in their first three attempts on goal, and just when it seemed the team was starting to recover, Igor Lichnovsky got himself sent off with a double yellow, complicating everything further.

With more heart than football, the team managed to tie the match in the last minute to take it to penalties, where they secured the victory. Unfortunately, this was not enough to maintain strong chances of advancing to the quarterfinals.

What does América need to advance?

The team needs many combinations of results, along with a victory against Portland Timbers to advance to the next round.

Before outlining the criteria needed to advance, we must highlight that the tiebreaker criteria are: Wins in 90 minutes, goal difference, and goals scored.

Considering this, we must point out that América has no victories, so they are already at a disadvantage in the main tiebreaker criterion.

Here are the criteria they need to advance:

As we can see, many combinations are needed, and additionally, they must defeat Portland Timbers decisively. This is because if all results align, América matches the main tiebreaker criterion, and then we move to the goal difference criterion, where the eagles currently have zero.

These are the matches of the involved clubs:

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